Soul Trigger

Chapter 290 Strobe, Black Goat
It was night, at the Bund.

Three soldiers in yellow and black uniforms strolled on the beach, one in front and two behind, moving at a constant speed towards the psychic fluctuation signal.

A long military cordon was erected along the coast, marking this as the territory of the third-category contact defense force.

"It's true that a new official starts with three things. I didn't expect that there are still remnants in the animal pen behind the Predator King." The soldier at the rear left sighed.

"It was already a week ago. I think it's completely dead now."

The soldier at the rear right was playing with something that looked like a walkie-talkie, which was a soul vibrator specifically designed for Predators.

"Even the illegal businesses in the slums have been largely wiped out. Now they are all fleeing to the northwest city area to hide... Isn't he afraid that his subordinates will be dissatisfied by doing this? The Northwest Branch must be under a lot of pressure recently."

"According to the new system of the Special Management Bureau, or as that person said, 'the implementation of a wartime system during special periods', so many cabbages have run into the fields to hide. Zhang Zhecai must be grinning so hard that his face is about to break. The GPAs are all over the ground, and he can find one right away if he digs it out."

"That's right. If we don't take stronger action, the capital won't relax its scrutiny on him so quickly..."

"It's mainly about the Saltwater Island. You don't have time to worry about Aurora City, right? 'Sealing the acupoints' is no joke. If things go wrong, we might end up fighting with the island nation."

"In the past few days, he has been hunting down the non-staff organizations of the Silver Pool Group and the remnants of the Cui family. Isn't it because he relies on the power of the chaebol in the capital that he has no time to take care of them..."

At this time, the leader's cold voice came from the front:
"The public channel is still open. You are talking about him behind his back like this. Aren't you afraid that he will come to the guards to teach us a lesson?"

The two of them paused for a moment, and then someone's forced laughter was heard:

"Boss...are you too sensitive? This is not the Special Management Bureau..."

"So, have you forgotten what happened to the new major general who came to the headquarters yesterday?"

This seemed to evoke bad memories in the minds of the two people, and they fell silent instantly.

"He questioned his orders, was forced to storm the Guards headquarters, and had both his legs broken in front of so many people. Not only did he lose all his face, but he also lost all his prestige."

"Now the capital has been slow to issue follow-up orders, especially the selection of a new 'human anchor'.

In addition, the core councillor Li Bingxiao has also been controlled by the Special Management Bureau. The function of our guards is now in name only. We have completely become the nanny of the City Hall and cannot touch the core..."

"The 'fireworks incident' attracted a lot of outside forces, including the 'Illusionary Light Sect' that has been making a lot of noise recently, and some old guys behind some secret societies are also showing signs of emerging. The Dark Lord of Flash Street is still in the city.

The capital can't take care of us, so the only way out for the local guards now is to work for the Special Management Bureau.

If you think his methods are radical, then apply to be transferred to another city."

As he spoke, he paused and sighed:

"But Black Goat... is indeed much more cruel than Han Xiaofu. I don't know if this is a bad thing..."

At this moment, a rapid sound came from their sensor, and the two soldiers at the rear tensed instantly:
"Predator...?!"

"No, there is a leak of the Lingbo Prison...it's just that the smell is a bit stronger."

The leader pressed the beeping alarm on his chest.

The three of them quickened their pace towards the source of the signal and arrived at a rocky coast.

The sea ahead was turbulent, and in the dark sea the only light that could be seen was the light from the lighthouse on the side.

Then the lighthouse suddenly shattered.

"There is a situation!"

The two men raised their guns in an instant, and spiritual circuits lit up on the equipment on their wrists.

Another person opened the integrated PDA (microcomputer) on his wrist and pressed it quickly. A mechanical object emerged from his shoulder. It looked like a steel claw and a satellite, with several petals flashing like a butterfly:
"This is the Coastline Base. There is no recorded Limbo nearby... It could be a dimensional strobe phenomenon. I am letting the signal penetrate the reflection world to check for possible fluctuations..."

"Wait a moment……"

The captain's voice suddenly tightened.

"what is that?"

Following the direction the leader was facing, the two men also raised their heads.

"…Sea turtle?"

"No, don't you find that this body is a little too big..." The engineer picked up the telescope in confusion.

But when he saw the giant object floating in the darkness, his hand shook and the monocular fell to the ground in an instant:

"that is?!"

At this moment, a sudden thunder broke out from the sea, and suddenly, heavy rain fell from the sky.

The sudden strange sight made the three people tense up instantly, and they also saw clearly what was in the sea:

A giant smiling human face, as big as an island, floated towards the shore.

Then the big eyes full of smiles suddenly turned and glared at the three people.

The sound of gun bolts being pulled in unison was heard, followed by the sound and light of gunfire and roaring, which faded away in the green smoke during the rainstorm for a long while, but the man's face was gone.

Under the visor, the engineer's face looked extremely ugly:

"...Everything is normal in the reflected world. There are no signs of erosion from the inner world..."

Then he suddenly turned around and looked at the leader:

"It's the dimensional flash that was leaked from the 'Sealed Cavern'! We must report it to the General immediately..."

"Headquarters..."

He stared blankly behind the two team leaders, as if there was something extremely terrifying.

The two team leaders suddenly grasped the handles of their guns, and opened fire the moment they turned around, but the guns instantly broke into pieces -

A giant smiling human face floated behind them, grinning with white teeth, looking down at the three of them quietly.

Cold sweat flowed down the leader's forehead. Intense fear surrounded him. He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar and his joints were stiff.

It was not until a long while later that he slowly took a step back and realized that he was still alive.

The big face opened its mouth:
"Smell..."

"hotbed……"

The captain's heart was pounding, but the stability of the Soul Trigger gradually calmed him down. He raised his hand to signal his subordinates behind him not to act rashly:
"What are you?"

The big face had a weird smile on it, and his eyes suddenly rolled around weirdly:
"A hotbed... a smell... a huge amount..."

The captain took two steps back and found that the thing didn't seem to be paying attention to him, so he gently touched the PDA on his wrist.

But the next moment, the PDA suddenly burst, and the big face's eyes were already locked on him:

"You... hotbed..."

An inexplicable force enveloped the captain's waist, and an object broke through his clothes and burst out, hovering in front of the big face.

It was a personality relic.

If Ji Li was here, he would be able to sense the fluctuations in things——

Contaminated relics.

The captain's expression suddenly changed. He wanted to reach out and take it back, but a voice seemed to tell him not to do that -

will die.

"No...no..."

The corners of its mouth suddenly stretched to the roots of its teeth, and its eyes began to shake wildly again. Its entire face began to flash wildly between illusion and reality, as if it would disappear in the next moment.

Then, its movement suddenly stopped, and the three soldiers exploded into blood plasma on the spot without even a scream.

The big mouth suddenly vomited out a human figure, then the big mouth closed its eyes and quickly decayed. Its consciousness quickly disappeared, but it turned into power and merged into the blood plasma in the air, and directly drilled into the body of the human figure.

It was unknown how long it had been, but when the man with long curly hair woke up, he found himself in a prison van.

His mind was blank. He was wearing dry prison clothes and had no idea why he was in such a place.

"you're awake?"

He looked up and saw a young man opposite him looking at him with a mocking expression:

"You are so brave. Not only did you sneak across the border, but you also landed on the guard's territory? You are really something."

The man with the long hair looked blank:
"Stowaway...Guards?"

"You don't look very clear-headed. They said you stowed away from the sea. This is the first time I've seen an ordinary person as 'powerful' as you."

The head of the scroll took a look inside the prison van and saw several other injured prisoners. He was stunned and said:

"Where are we going?"

"Black Prison."

The young man smiled bitterly:
"We're going to the Black Prison. Maybe we can be cellmates..."

His eyes were full of melancholy, flashing with nostalgia, hatred, and pain.

Then, as if to find joy in suffering, he stretched out his hand:
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Cui Zhechen."

"My name is……"

The man was stunned for a long while, his eyes gradually lost focus: "My name is... the Chosen One."

Cui Zhechen was stunned for a moment:
"what?"

The next moment, a gray light burst out from Cui Zhechen's body——

Like a set of disintegrating building blocks, the entire prison van exploded and fell apart in an instant.

A large group of prisoners slid out more than ten meters along the remaining frames with screams, and people were thrown out and rolled on the ground one by one.

Cui Zhechen gritted his teeth and slowly got up from the ground. He saw the man covered in thick gray light, slowly rising from the wreckage of the prison van.

He is not an ordinary person...but what is this spiritual essence...? !

The Chosen One looked around, his gaze gradually fixed on Cui Zhechen, and he slowly approached and stopped in front of him:
"Cui Zhechen, you have been chosen."

……

Yellow and black Guard vehicles blocked off suburban roads.

Except for the cracks all over the ground, everything here is incredibly clean, and there is even little trace of residual spiritual energy.

The guard members were moving around in a busy manner, constantly checking and making detailed records. Several teams of soldiers spread out into the nearby jungle.

Two figures, one tall and one short, wearing bulletproof vests and tactical capes were also among them. They looked rather uneasy as they watched the people coming and going around them.

"...Brother Yuanye, is it really okay for us to stand here?" asked the boy with a childish appearance.

"Stop talking, you haven't received the money yet!"

The man with mohawk gave him a crutch and asked him to stand up straight:
"Show us the spirit of the trackers. This is a big order. The idiots in the Hunter Guild may not be able to get such a good job even if they spend ten years in the haze!"

At this time, as a middle-aged man with a moderate build and a scholarly air approached, the two of them suddenly tensed up:

"Hello, sir!"

The eldest brother said quickly and quietly:

"Watch your posture, this is the commander of the Third Contact Defense Team, a big shot..."

The middle-aged man had short white hair and was wearing a yellow and black special warfare uniform of the Third Contact Defense Team. His boots were shiny and his clothes were neat. He glanced at the two people with a PDA in his hand:
"You are the ones who discovered the scene?"

"That's right." "Big Brother" said in a deep voice.

"Hmm... Trackers, huh? A new medium-sized association registered under the new regulations of the Special Management Bureau. The leader is... Ji Xu. I remember you split from the Mist Hunter Guild?

Ah, don't be nervous, just checking the file, after all, we have cooperated many times. "

He glanced at the two men who looked a little dirty, frowned slightly, took a step back, and saluted:
"Thank you. This should be the third time this month, right? You are really professional. I will transfer the money to you right away... Well, I am not very familiar with the new system of the Special Management Bureau..."

He didn't pay attention to the other person's suspected mysophobia.

Yuan Ye looked at the amount on his PDA. Although he had expected it, he was still stunned:
"……so much!?"

"Well, this time the matter is more serious. Not only did they rob the prison van, but a very important criminal also escaped... You should have heard the news. The Chosen One is really a troublesome thing."

The senior colonel took out a handkerchief and wiped his sweaty hands.

"Indeed... I didn't expect that the Illusionary Light Sect would even dare to move the guards' prisoner van."

The senior officer shook his head, noticing the dusty leaves floating on his neat shoulders, and swept them away with a frown:

"There may be other reasons. You know that the spiritual essence of these 'chosen ones' is almost undetectable. The specific reason is still under investigation. Of course, there are more troublesome things right now..."

There was an obvious anxiety in the corner of his eyes, which was clearly caught by his elder brother. He smelled the business and immediately became alert:
"If it's about action, I can help you with that..."

The anxious senior officer paused for a moment, then seemed to have thought of something and looked at the others:

"Trackers, you should be good at tracking the 'Lightless One' as well..."

"Of course!"

Yuan Ye grinned:
"We have worked together many times. I don't think I need to prove my abilities to you any more."

The senior officer nodded: "That's good. In that case, I have another one here..."

Before he could finish his words, a rapid vibration interrupted him. After apologizing slightly, he turned away and answered a phone call, his expression suddenly changing.

"Everyone, take action immediately... Don't slack off! Get moving!! We must clear all traces before dark!"

Looking at the agitated scene, Yuan Ye and the others looked a little confused, and then they were pulled away by the leading officer:
"…What happened?"

The senior officer forced a laugh:
"Nothing... It's just right, you can talk to him in person later..."

"Who?"

The leading colonel pulled Yuan Ye and others to the side of the car, opened their neat and new uniforms in front of the car window, and pulled them hard until they were in a mess.

Then he noticed the dirty fallen leaves on the ground, and after a struggle in his eyes, he gritted his teeth, grabbed a handful and rubbed them on himself, making a mess.

The two people next to him looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he was doing.

“Don’t worry about it…”

After wiping it quickly for a while, as the sound of an engine approached, the captain quickly stopped the action and stood on the side of the road with the two men.

At this moment, several elite soldiers were already lined up on both sides of the road, looking like guards ready for battle.

Yuan Ye:

"This is……"

It is not difficult to see that this person wanted to inflict some pain on himself, at least he looked very hardworking and busy.

Which big guy is coming here and doing this?
Yuan Ye has worked with this senior colonel many times and knows a little about his temper. This guy is a stereotype-level mysophobia.

"Shh!"

The senior colonel said nervously.

As the engine sound got closer, he said solemnly:
"Here we go! Don't talk nonsense later. If you get slapped to death, don't blame me for not warning you..."

A pitch-black vehicle approached quickly and stopped in the middle of the road with a squeak.

The vehicle was all black, in the style of a sports car, wide and long, and covered with light armor in gray and black.

The Special Management Bureau logo was printed on the corner of the car window, but it was completely broken by a streak of gray, with a black geometric goat head printed on it.

The moment he saw the logo, Yuan Ye's expression froze and his breathing slowed down.

Only the younger brother beside him was still peeking around, but Yuan Ye held him down, his fingers turning white from the force:
"Damn it... I thought someone from the Dusk Squad would be enough... but it turned out to be this monster..."

Affected by the state of the eldest brother, the younger brother did not dare to stick his head out and asked in a low voice:
"Who?"

Yuan Ye's hands clenched even tighter as he watched a blonde girl in a white uniform walk out from the passenger seat and open the driver's door.

The atmosphere around suddenly tensed. A dark shadow stepped onto the ground, and an intricately shaped metal mask emerged from it.

The moment he saw the black patent leather coat, Yuan Ye's pupils suddenly contracted:

"black goat……"

"The new core director of the Special Management Bureau is a ruthless character who has killed many people in the city in the past half month..."

Then he added:
"The Dusk Troops are his personal Jinyiwei..."

My face suddenly tightened and I didn't dare to breathe.

……

Ji Li yawned loudly under the mask of cognitive disguise and got out of the car.

Seeing the guards on both sides standing in tense and absolute silence, he tilted his head.

The officer's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his hand holding the PDA was tense:

"Welcome..."

"Aren't we investigating a case? What are all these people standing there for?"

Jasmine spoke for Ji Li, and the people around them immediately dispersed and became busy in full swing, but countless eyes were still glancing over here.

Ji Li and Moli walked up to the senior officer, who saluted fiercely:
"Meet... Meet the Director General."

"No gifts."

Ji Li glanced at the guy's trembling appearance and found it funny. He reached out and straightened his collar for him.

This action caused the latter to lean back, and the muscles on his face tensed.

After Ji Li finished tidying up, he patted his shoulder gently:

"Relax, I don't like you."

"Yes Yes."

The colonel's smile was uglier than crying.
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PS: I stayed in front of the computer until after 5 o'clock last night to organize the outline because I found a fatal plot hole.

The latest updates are not very stable and we are working hard to adjust them.

(End of this chapter)